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The coffee was brewing as usual, and patrons were as caffeine-crazed as any other day, but something curious was happening behind the scenes at beloved and bemoaned coffee giant Starbucks on March 9, 2012. On that date, Adam Brotman, formerly senior vice president of Starbucks Digital Ventures, was named...

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A new mixtape from the hip-hop group SlumVillage debuts today, so last week the band began the delicate process of building buzz online. They partnered with the New York startup StereoGrid, which set out to promote the song via its music delivery platform, a service that allows artists to send...

techcrunch.com

Science, the eight-month-old LA-based technology incubator / studio that brought us the Dollar Shave Club and most recently e-commerce site Uncovet, is making its first acquisition: it is buying Pinpuff, a “Klout for Pinterest” that measures and tracks the influence of Pinterest users — “Pinfluence” in Pinpuff parlance — that...

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Well, it’s about time on-demand car service Uber landed around these parts. According to a new post on the company’s official blog, Uber has just soft-launched in Philadelphia and now has a small crew of their tell-tale black cars cruising around the city. And I do mean small — a...

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Karmasphere CEO Gail Ennis told me recently she thinks “2013 is going to be the year when we see [Hadoop adoption] go a lot more mainstream and [turn] into a tornado.” I like the prediction, as much for its imagery as for her near-term certainty. Hadoop right now is like...

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Twitter launched its first TV ad Sunday, and it was all about Nascar. But beyond just getting the attention of Nascar users, the ad is also meant to show off what brands can get if they partner with the social network. Based on what we’ve heard, we’re pretty sure the...

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On Monday night, Nightline aired a special report that took a look behind the scenes of a Foxconn factory. Now Apple and Foxconn have issued statements to clarify aspects of people saw, reports ABC. Apple responded to one worker's claim that she carves Apple logos into 6,000 iPads per shift:...

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If the latest reports are to be believed, we'll soon be doing a lot more "liking" from our iDevices. That's because Apple is expected to roll out Facebook integration in iOS 6, allegedly not unlike it did with Twitter in the last major update to its mobile operating system. ...

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Q: How can I burn a slideshow that I made in iPhoto on my MacBook Pro onto a CD? A: You can export the slideshow as a video (a QuickTime movie in Apple parlance) and then burn that video to your CD. Here’s how: In iPhoto, after you’ve created the...

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(Photo: Twitter) The trouble with producing a wildly successful viral video is that everything you do afterwards is going to pale in comparison. The folks at Dollar Shave Club appear to be learning this lesson the hard way. The Santa Monica-based company sends you “fucking great” razors for a premium...

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Why is Twitter running TV ads all of a sudden? We don't think Twitter is spending that kind of money to sign up new users. (It's doing just fine on that front.) No, we think Twitter is trying to get the attention of big brand advertisers for a whole new...

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Viddy, which recently rocketed to become the #1 free iOS app, has raised a new round of financing from some very prominent technology and entertainment investors. Information is still coming in, but we’ve learned that the investors in this round include Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, founder of Omniture &...

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If there's one statistic that describes the massive untapped opportunity that is mobile advertising, it's the number of dumbphones—"feature phones" in industry parlance—that are still on the market: Six billion. That's 6 billion devices that only make calls, texts and little else, which will one day fail (or their owners...

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Apple, Foxconn and the Fair Labor Association responded to ABC’s “iFactory: Inside Apple” special, which aired last night detailing the life of an Apple factory worker. iFactory tells the story of one Foxconn, one of Apple’s suppliers, and its working conditions, which have recently been criticized due to group...

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Google has responded to Microsoft's accusation that it bypassed a privacy setting in Internet Explorer. The full response is below, but here's the basic gist of it: The privacy standard that Microsoft is talking about, P3P, is outdated and doesn't work for the modern Web. Lots of other sites,...

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Imagine a world in which your TV's built-in microphone "heard" your conversations and then showed you specially targeted ads. It's not as far-fetched as it sounds. A London voucher code company put out a pretty nice hoax product called Hearscreen over the weekend. They imagined a world in which televisions'...

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In a flurry of Facebook news on Wednesday, the company submitted yet another amendment to its S-1 filing to the SEC, further outlining its weaknesses in the mobile realm. The amendment is small, yet highlights an important vulnerability in the company’s ads business. The company’s daily active users — or...

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If you happened to be off the grid last week, a new video chat startup called Airtime launched, courtesy of two of my favorite “Sean/Shawns” – Parker and Fanning. I decided to leave an Airtime video message for Parker instead of shooting over the usually obligatory “congrats on the...

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I had the pleasure of meeting 'Nolly' a few years back – but it seems his encounter with his Facebook tormenter was more fruitfulYet more proof that my cosmic ordering is working, as Broken Britain demagogue Nolly Edmonds hits the headlines again. Noel has met a troll – or, in...

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Twitter is easy, right? No—actually, it's way too hard for ordinary people to sort through all the noise and chatter to find interesting tweets. The buzzword in Silicon Valley for this is "discovery." So Twitter's now fixing its discovery problem with a new feature called "Tailored Trends." It's rolling out...

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Mr. Webb. I was sitting at Crif Dogs. The one in Williamsburg. It was sometime around midnight. I was coming home from the Björk show at Roseland, and picking up some burgers and dogs for me and my girlfriend. I was a little tipsy. I like that place. People are...

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Apple and Foxconn have each responded to various claims made in ABC’s Nightline segment that took a look inside two Foxconn factories in an effort to shed light on their working conditions. Responding to a comment made by one worker who claimed she carves aluminum shavings from 6,000 iPad...

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After three years of burying the feature in Gmail Labs, Google is officially incorporating a translate button into email, the company announced today. "Did you ever dream about a future where your communications device could transcend language with ease?" Google asks. Yes, we did! Wait, how did you know that?...

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“Given Amazon’s size and ambitions, we continue to track their progress carefully as well.” With that brief statement, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings acknowledged one of the online streaming video service’s perceived competitors in its quarterly letter to shareholders as part of today’s first quarter 2012 earnings report: Amazon Prime Instant...

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Wired took a trip with Octocat this week, publishing on GitHub. Image: GitHub Earlier this week, Wired published a story about GitHub, the “version control” site that’s taking the internet by storm. But it was more than just a story. It was an experiment in version control. In addition to...

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If you want to see just how much of an impact Pinterest has made in a short amount of time, witness social shopping startup Nuji, which sent out a press release a few hours ago describing itself as ‘Pinterest with rewards’. It’s an angle that seems to be working though,...

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Verizon’s Droid RAZR and its fatter, longer-lasting brother the RAZR Maxx are fine devices, but let’s face it — Gingerbread is a bit passe at this point. The carrier has promised since the launch day that the device(s) would eventually get a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich, and later pointed...

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A hacking attack on Global Payments, a small Atlanta firm, has potentially exposed hundreds of thousands of customers from the major credit card companies to fraud, reports the Wall Street Journal. Global Payments is what’s known in the industry parlance as a “third party processor”. Essentially they sit in between...